Stereoscopic photographic camera

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Stereoscopic photographic camera for glass plates (17 x 8. 5 cm). Diaphragm coulissant type inside with 3 positions. Double fixed lens, unbranded. Lens: 2 cm diameter. Lens cap is included. A camera for taking stereoscopic photographs, that is, two photographs of the same image from two slightly different angles, imitating the gaze of the human eyes. The resulting image was seen through a stereoscopic view-finder to recreate it in three dimensions. The first stereoscopic camera dates from 1856.

Object/Work type:

stereoscopic cameras

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

13 x 22 x 18 cm

Production

Unknown

Place: Germany

Subject/theme:

photography, stereoscopic photography, cameras

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP02160